Here's what Engineering, Product & Design look like at BioRender, from our team breakdown to technical challenges to user problems!
At BioRender, our mission is to accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover and communicate science. We are passionate about democratizing science communication in order to accelerate scientific discovery and understanding. We're looking for amazing people to help create the world’s go-to-place and platform where science is communicated.
We’re accelerating science by transforming the way we communicate.
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5.4 M+ figures created
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<aside> 🤩 54 M+ hours saved to date
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Currently, our engineering, product, and design department is 60 people across 8 teams. The teams have autonomy in how they operate, prioritize their work, and pick tools to improve their workflows. Every team has some form of stand ups, retrospectives, and planning sessions. Every two weeks, we come together for a Product & Engineering All Hands where teams share their recent wins and learnings.
🎨 Illustration Core Editor
The Illustration Core Editor team’s mission is to build the best-in-class tool for creating scientific illustrations. The team's primary focus includes enhancing and improving the editor, which is the core functionality of the BioRender application.
📊 Figure Expansion
This team is focused on new product expansion, currently graphing. The Graphing team’s mission is to expand what scientists are able to communicate in BioRender through the easiest-to-use and most delightful graphing and statistical analysis solution. Graphing is a new product currently in open beta. The team’s primary focus is scaling the product from 0-1!
👩🏻🔬 Enterprise
The Enterprise Team’s mission is to build a world-class and intuitive experience for scientists and their teams to use and collaborate in BioRender (researchers, admins, and others). The features include signup, onboarding, file organization, collaboration, payments, account management and more.
📈 Growth Engineering
The Growth Engineering Team uses rapid product experimentation to drive user acquisition/engagement/retention/revenue, optimize the user experience and drive forward sales pipeline.
🔍 Search & Recommendations
The mission of this team to help our users easily find the content they need to create, communicate, and share their discoveries. They leverage the best technology in search, recommendations, and AI to empower millions of scientist with an efficient, personalized, and delightful creation experience.
🤖 AI Figure Generation
This a fast moving, experimental team that leverages the latest advancements in AI to re-imagine how users can create beautiful and scientifically accurate figures in BioRender. This team aims to reduce the speed of figure creation by 10x.
📊 Data
The Data Team is responsible for data analytics and infrastructure for the company. We create and maintain internal data products and tools for the company. We manage the company’s data warehouse which is used for product analytics, business intelligence, reporting and analyses by every team in the company. We are a team specializing in both data infrastructure and analytics!
🗣️ User Research
The User Research team’s mission is to make an impact on user experience by understanding and advocating for the needs and motivations of the science community. Our goal is to uncover insights that drive design, product, and business decisions, leading to measurable and successful experiences for our users.
🧱 Platform
The Platform Team provides a secure, stable, performant platform to empower product and engineering to have autonomy to get their work done more efficiently.